Dashe
Karata's second-in-command — a large, well-muscled, board-faced Elantrian who has wanted to strike at Aanden for months. When a scout reports the university gang plans to attack the palace, he takes two-thirds of Karata's men over her objection. EL:EL:Ch 16
Known facts
- father-figure-to-matisseDashe had a special affection for the orphan Matisse he and Karata had taken in — smiled more when she was around, called on her when something needed doing, and accepted without comment the day she simply started calling him Father.EL:HoE:Prologue
- fell-defending-roost-childrenDuring the Dakhor assault on New Elantris, Dashe charged a squad of five soldiers alone to buy Matisse and the children of the Roost time to escape into the dark city, and was run through the chest; he gave the body to the Hoed muttering for Matisse to run, and rose again silver-skinned and healed only when the city itself was restored at dawn.EL:HoE:Prologue
Events
- EL:EL:Ch 16 Leads his armed band into the rigged building before Raoden's warning halts him at the doorway; eventually lays down his sword and walks away.
- EL:EL:Ch 19 One of the five soldiers — Saolin, Dashe, and three others — who form the line that breaks the raid in the garden.
- EL:EL:Ch 31 Karata's former second, brought along to Shaor's bank as one of the few experienced fighters left to Raoden.
- EL:EL:Ch 34 Dashe bursts in with the rumour of the gyorn's healing.
- EL:EL:Ch 40 Watcher at the gate; reports that the new arrival screamed for ten minutes, hurled the priests' basket of offerings into the stone, and then went still.
- EL:HoE:Prologue Watches the Aon-drawing drill with his hand on his sword, mutters that Spirit should be home rather than chasing the foreign princess, and goes off to muster men when Ashe reports the weapons shipment.
- EL:HoE:Prologue Comes out of a shadowed alley and takes the side of a Dakhor squad of three to keep them off Matisse and the children; cut down by reinforcing soldiers, he mouths at her to run as a sword goes through his chest and slips into the Hoed mantra.
- EL:HoE:Prologue Lies impaled on the cobbles as Matisse kneels over him; rises silver-skinned and healed at the dawn restoration, the sword that pinned him in his hand, and drops the soldier who had her at knifepoint.
Backreferences
- summaryEL:EL:Ch 16
- summaryEL:EL:Ch 19
- summaryEL:EL:Ch 31
- summaryEL:EL:Ch 34
- summaryEL:EL:Ch 40
- summaryEL:HoE:Prologue
- factRaoden
- factDashe
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- factMatisse
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- factIdotris